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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Styx - The Untold Story

“We’d be compared to bands like Queen, but that was written before I ever heard a Queen record.” Dennis DeYoung reveals the surprising stories behind 10 iconic Styx songs

“At the end I’m yelling, ‘I’m Kilroy!’ Where the hell does that come from?”

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“Steve Lukather’s guitar collided with a mic stand. He banked the guitar against it and made it a feature of the song. I don’t even understand!” Toto’s Dennis Atlas and his star-studded solo album

Listen to Principle and you’ll hear Bumblefoot, David Paich, Marco Minneman and others, plus Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Jordan Rudess influences

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Hold up your phone, hang on to your tissues, we're going in: The 40 greatest power ballads of all time

Break out the inflatable guitars, let those smartphones beam like galaxies of stars: These are the greatest, most heart-stirring, most life-affirming power ballads of them all

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“We opened for bands we really hated, like Styx. People were relating to us and not them. They got a little pissed”: the stellar rise and sudden fall of The Cars, the new wave band who soundtracked America

For nearly a decade in the late 70s and early 80s, The Cars were one of America’s most popular bands

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“That song killed Styx. It was truly awful. I mean, that was about the dumbest idea ever”: The synth-rock anthem that sold a million but derailed a superstar rock band

“It was dismissed by so many people because it was so doggone catchy and clever,” the singer claimed

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"Jaw-dropping from start to finish, Offering is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of album." A heartfelt salute to Axe's forgotten blue-collar gruntrock party classic

Revisiting one of melodic rock's greatest long-lost albums

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“It was like, ‘Are we going to work on Peter Gabriel’s stuff or our stuff?’ Everybody said, ‘Our stuff! We just like it better’”: The American band who decided to stick to their own course… and ran aground

The ex-Genesis singer wanted them to be his backing band exclusively, leaving them to choose between his ambitions or their own

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Styx publisher Nacon files for insolvency just a week after we gave its latest game 82%, asks white-knuckling creditors to figure out what's next in 'a calm and constructive framework'

The studio says it's trying to "develop a credible and effective continuation plan."

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“I remember Lars was unwrapping all these Styx and REO Speedwagon records and I’m going, ‘What are you buying this crap for?’”: Why James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich didn’t always see eye to eye in Metallica’s early days

Plus: Hetfield's memories of his first gig – when AC/DC opened for Aerosmith

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One of the Best Stealth Series Ever Is Finally Free to Claim on Epic

Ahead of the next 'Styx' game, both existing entries in the stealth series are free to claim on the Epic Games Store.

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"I don’t think I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick and said I ruined the band" Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans

The co-founding Styx singer and keyboardist on his prog influences, why he hired a woman to shout at his kids – and why he doesn’t care if he isn’t remembered

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“Mikael Åkerfeldt and I were close for a while. We wound up with the same management and drifted apart”: Devin Townsend discusses his prog world (while he’s hiding from his dogs)

Stick-collecting Canadian who preferred Motorhead to Marillion says Captain Beefheart didn’t know he was nuts, the Interstellar soundtrack floored him, and the Wildhearts are prog

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“I said: ‘If the South Park guys are gonna do a Barbra Streisand on us, it’s a no’”: How Queen, The Who and Star Wars inspired the greatest power ballad about alien abduction ever written

It even got the South Park seal of approval

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"My plan was always to keep the organisation together, but the challenges are just overwhelming": REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin admits it's harder to sell tickets under his own name

Kevin Cronin has come to a decision

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“inspired, uniformly excellent music – both vintage and fresh”: Styx continue their prog-powered renaissance with Circling From Above

Chicago’s AOR-prog veterans return in fine fettle – although the music vastly outweighs the concept on their 18th album

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“I told Chris Squire, ‘I really owe you for being an influence.’ He said, ‘Well, pay up, mate!’” When Styx ex Ricky Phillips met his hero, it all went well

American bassist recalls being captivated at an early age by the Yes icon’s approach, and how it felt to tour together many years later

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“I grew up in the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician. But now the deck is heavily stacked against old farts like myself!”: The classic rock singer exiled by his old band after writing their biggest hits

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Styx share first new music from upcoming new album Circling From Above

US pomp rockers Styx will release their 18th studio album Circling From Above in July

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"How anyone can be 'deeply disturbed and hurt' by this is beyond me": REO Speedwagon charity show bickering continues as Bruce Hall fires back at Kevin Cronin

Why can't we all just get along?

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"I am deeply disturbed and hurt by all of this": Kevin Cronin slams REO Speedwagon concert organisers after being "knowingly excluded" from hometown show

The charity show in Champaign, Illinois, will pay tribute to late REO Speedwagon members Gary Richrath and Gregg Philbin

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Genre giants Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell might not be kicking like they used to, but underrated stealth gem Styx is coming back for another game

Styx: Blades of Greed is sneaking out later this year

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“I don’t believe I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick. They even said I had ruined the band”: Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans

Co-founding singer and keyboardist on his prog influences, hiring a shouting woman to conserve his voice, taking a rock-is-dead approach to his final solo albums – and why he doesn’t care if he isn’t remembered

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"All we wanted was to stamp out Queen and Aerosmith": Inspired by Keith Moon and Star Trek, Come Sail Away took Styx to places they never expected

A song about being picked up and taken away by aliens, Come Sail Away gave Styx a career boost and eventually took on a life of its own

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"The songs will live on with this band and with me under the name Kevin Cronin": REO Speedwagon have played their final ever show but the band formerly known as REO Speedwagon will continue

Watch Kevin Cronin pay tribute as REO Speedwagon officially step away from the stage

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"From a period when the band's theatricality had yet to spill over into pretension": Styx successfully fight the pomp rock wars on The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion was the first of four consecutive triple-platinum albums for Styx, establishing them as one of America’s biggest rock acts

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